This book explains the political causes and consequences of the 2011 GCC-sponsored regime change and 2015–2019 warfare in Yemen, analyzing international relations between global and regional powers in the Middle East. Using a multi-actor model, the book shows that strategic national security motives and interests of various governments and non-state actors—including President Hadi, former president Saleh, and Houthi rebel leaders, as well as the Islamist Islah party, Hirak movement, Southern Transitional Council, and various Salafists and Jihadi terrorists like al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP)—combined to create a disastrous military conflict and humanitarian crisis. Yemen’s tragedy is often blamed on Saudi Arabia and its Sunni-Shia rivalry with Iran, yet the book presents a more complex picture of involvement by the UAE, UK, US, EU, Russia, China, Turkey, Oman, Qatar, and African Red Sea states.weiterlesen